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A review by thesmutsister_emma
Storm in a D Cup by Nancy Barone
Did not finish book. Stopped at 7%.
At first, I was super excited about this book. It seemed like it was a book was going to bye everything I needed. It has a plus size FMC and it appeared to be woman empowering. That is NOT what I received in the 7% of this book I managed to get through.
My issues with the book lie in two different scenarios within the book. The first Erica, the FMC, is talking about her daughter, who I am assuming is a teenager. The conversation that Erica gave seemed pretty standard for mother/daughter conversations while the latter is in her teenage years. Despite this, for some reason, Erica accuses her daughter of having "uncontrolled narcissism." She compares her daughter to the woman who raised Erica and this woman is not portrayed in a good light whatsoever. now, there might be more of a reason for Erica to make these claims against her daughter that I did not make it to, but these bothered me deeply.
My other large issue came with the phrasing of something that was used by Erica again. In this context, Erica is talking about her ex-husband. She is talking about how he stole their children's college funds and went away for doing so. In this specific instance, she refers to it as "loony bin for crooks." I don't even know where to start with this. This is under no circumstances the way to phrase this. I am all for dogging your ex-husband, I will actively participate 90% of the time, but this is NOT the way to go about it at all. The term "loony bin" has been used in the past to discuss mental facilities, most of which patients were not committed to willingly and had horrid practices and crimes against the people residing there. To be using this phrasing to try to make light of this situation is completely inappropriate.
My issues with the book lie in two different scenarios within the book. The first Erica, the FMC, is talking about her daughter, who I am assuming is a teenager. The conversation that Erica gave seemed pretty standard for mother/daughter conversations while the latter is in her teenage years. Despite this, for some reason, Erica accuses her daughter of having "uncontrolled narcissism." She compares her daughter to the woman who raised Erica and this woman is not portrayed in a good light whatsoever. now, there might be more of a reason for Erica to make these claims against her daughter that I did not make it to, but these bothered me deeply.
My other large issue came with the phrasing of something that was used by Erica again. In this context, Erica is talking about her ex-husband. She is talking about how he stole their children's college funds and went away for doing so. In this specific instance, she refers to it as "loony bin for crooks." I don't even know where to start with this. This is under no circumstances the way to phrase this. I am all for dogging your ex-husband, I will actively participate 90% of the time, but this is NOT the way to go about it at all. The term "loony bin" has been used in the past to discuss mental facilities, most of which patients were not committed to willingly and had horrid practices and crimes against the people residing there. To be using this phrasing to try to make light of this situation is completely inappropriate.